But All Those
Who Are In The Least Capable Of Any Idea Of Those Emotions, Which
Agitated The Minds Of Both These Amiable Persons, Will Believe Neither
Of Them Slept Much That Night.
CHAP. XVI.
The Innkeepers scruples oblige Louisa to write to Melanthe: her
behavior on the discovery of the count's falshood. Louisa changes her
resolution and goes to Bolognia.
Monsieur du Plessis, having found it impossible to dissuade Louisa from
going to England, now bent his whole thoughts to perform his promise of
conducting her to Leghorn, in the most commodious manner he could;
accordingly he rose very early, and calling for the man of the house,
desired he would provide a handsome post chaise, and if he knew any
fellows whose integrity might be relied on, he thought necessary to hire
two such, who, furnished with fire-arms, might serve as a guard against
any attack the count might take it into his head to make.
But the innkeeper had now entertained notions that forbid him to
correspond with the designs of monsieur: some of his neighbours, who had
heard of last night's accident, whispered it in his ears, that it would
not be safe for him to let these young people depart together; that he
could not be assured the person, who pretended to be the husband, might
not be so in reality; and if he should come again with proper officers
and proofs to claim his wife, it might be of dangerous consequence to
him to have favoured her escape; and that the only way he had to secure
himself from being brought into trouble, was to lay the whole affair
before the podestat.
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